Scheiße!

Wow... Not quite sure what to say. I finish off my beer last night, lock up my stuff in the locker and head on down to the dorm. I fell asleep easy enough, but at some point in the night, the lights all come on and someone is talking loudly. The lights are on a timer, so they keep going off, but this guy keeps turning them back on again, still talking loudly, obviously trying to wake somebody. I figured its early morning and he and his buddy need to leave, and they´re just being really inconsiderate.

Well, to make a long and disgusting story short, but no less disgusting, apparently some old guy completely shit himself in his bunk on the other side of the dorm! The guy I heard talking was kicking him out. The old guy took his bedding with him, but as a final F-U, dumped a bunch of its contents right in the doorway! Soon, everyone was awake from the noise and the lights and the smell. Staff soon came in and cleaned it up, but that took a while, and the smell lingered for a while.

I eventually nodded back off, but with folks coming and going, it was not a restful night. I was woken up by my neighbor´s alarm which repeatedly shouted "Gooooooooood morning Vietnam!!!!!!! This is not a test, this is rock and roll, from the delta to the DMZ!!!!" in progressively louder voices, waking everyone around except its intended. I stumbled out of bed and headed down to the showers.

They were cold. That was the last straw.

My first order of business for today is to try to find another room for tonight. I´ve pre-paid for another bed there, but that´s a definite plan B--make that, like... Plan X--at this point.

There´s a tourist office nearby that will help with rooms, but they don´t open until 10:00 so I´m killing time here.

Unfortunately, right now is Springfest, the ´little brother´ of Oktoberfest, so rooms are scarce and pricy, so I may be back there again. At least I´ll be in a smaller 5-person dorm, rather than the big 25-person one from last night, and really... not to tempt fate here, but could it get much worse??

I know many of you have said you´re living vicariously through this blog... Just wanted you to know that not everything has been all smelling like roses! ;)

I´ll get through it though... live and learn.

Lessons Learned:
The good... hostels are cheap
The bad... there´s a reason
The ugly... Scheiße!!